He volunteered to serve the Union in the Civil War, and was an active part of a Marshall veteran’s group. But for more than ...

Illinois Army National Guard goes to train in Wisconsin and WMBD tags along ...

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the ...

A new exhibit honoring a local transgender Civil War veteran from northern Illinois was unveiled at Rockford's Veterans Memorial Hall this week.

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

United States Colored Infantry Regiment, the only regiment of black troops formed in Illinois during the Civil War. A facsimile ...

Flint Creek runs through western Benton County and into Oklahoma as part of the Illinois River ... where the 6th Kansas Regiment set camp in March 1863 during the Civil War. The site is named ...

Schmale, of Charleston, researches flags that were carried on Illinois battlefields during the Civil War. There were regimental, calvary, infantry and battery flags. For more than 40 years ...

Albert Cashier, an Irish immigrant who came to America sometime before the Civil War, watched the 15th Illinois Infantry Regiment march off to join Ulysses S. Grant and what would soon be called ...

But most Black Civil War soldiers never saw ... Handy enlisted and shortly after met white Illinois soldiers eager to hire a cook. Unaware that leaving his regiment—even if he remained in ...

On Tuesday, Nov.12, Lafayette Parish School history teacher Jason Muller will unveil a new historical marker commemorating a Civil War skirmish ... The 118th Illinois Mounted Infantry, led by ...

Civil War battles were very visual things, so officers on horseback were targets.” Sunken Road O’Neill and I left the air-conditioned visitor center for a tour of the battlefield.